Now that you have experienced the cultural heritage of Belize, what have you learned that gives you insight into the children and families you are working with?

Some that stuck out from the cultural heritage that we learned about on our inland trip what that Belizeans come from a culture where religion is everything.  In the ATM Cave we saw a skeleton of a young woman that was sacrificed by volunteered.  This lets me know that the students I am working with and their families are very proud and most likely religious people, and I need to be sensitive when making references in the classroom and when I make examples.  It also explains the crucifixes in the classrooms.  In one of the senior classes, there is a crucifix that is about 2 feet tall in the middle of the board.  Something that has to be noted is that these are the students classroom, and they decorate and they are responsible for what is in there.  So the crucifixes are not something that the school is putting there, it is something that the students are bringing into the classroom.